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SUMMARY:Patricia Foster -- Author Event
LOCATION:Latte Da\, 32 S Section St\, Fairhope\, AL 36532\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Foster — Author EventJoin us at Page & Palette on Th
 ursday\, November 12th at 6PM as award-winning local authors Patricia Fost
 er and Suzanne Hudson discuss Foster’s new memoir\,A Marriage in Startle
 d Air.Patricia will be in conversation with Suzanne Hudson\, sharing stori
 es and insights from her beautifully written memoir about marriage and fam
 ily.Reserve your copy ofA Marriage in Startled AirHERE. The book will be a
 vailable for pick up anytime after October 15th.About the BookA story of m
 arriage\, illness\, and a hidden past in which the consequences of recover
 y and the revelations of trauma open a marriage to a new map of intimacyIn
 A Marriage in Startled Air\, Patricia Foster shares the dramatic story of 
 how the diagnosis of her husband’s rare cancer changed the dynamics of t
 heir marriage and opened the door to the hidden world of his childhood\, r
 evealing the seeds of trauma and childhood PTSD. In vivid\, often poetic p
 rose\, Foster reflects on how the journey of recovery—and discovery—be
 tween two artists in a relatively happy marriage leads to difficult conver
 sations about family\, memory\, identity\, and aging. Within this unburden
 ing\, Patricia and David discover a new map of intimacy: Once the illusion
  of normalcy is broken\, what emerges is something sweeter and deeper\, as
  if the broken thing becomes\, ironically\, the healing thing.About the Au
 thorPatricia Foster is the author ofAll the Lost Girls(PEN Award)\,Just be
 neath My Skin\,Girl from Soldier Creek(SFA Novel Award)\,Written in the Sk
 y:Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, and a forthcoming memoir\,A Marriage in
  Startled Air.  She is the editor of four anthologies\, includingMinding 
 the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul.  She has been awarded a PEN Awa
 rd\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Clarence Cason Award\, a Dean’s Scholar Award\
 , a Yaddo Fellowship\, a Carl Klaus Teaching Award\, a 2024 Hall-Waters Pr
 ize for Distinguished Southern Writing\, and the 2026 Alabama Truman Capot
 e Award for fiction and nonfiction.  Foster received her
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